At the end of grand Boulevard there is a walkway going over the train tracks, it is a switch-back walkway that runs parallel to the tracks then goes over to the other side. There was still some snow piled up, it was encrusted in dirt and dried grass. Someone had spray painted their tag line in magenta outlined with cyan, which I could recreate using purple magenta (PR122) and cyan (PB15 + PG7) pigments, and making it into my tag line PJD 25. Shadows from a tree were overlapping the concrete structure and snow pile. Monday is calling for 5cm of snow actually, so everyone will get a reality check.
Post tag, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, March 2025 (No. 4201a)
On the other side, you see the concrete walkway angling downwards, with the train tracks angling upwards on the perspective. This was a test of perspective drawing... I held my brush up to judge the angles and made sure they were relatively correct on the paper. In the background is part of the downtown Montreal skyline. The commuter trains went by but I could not fit them into the composition, there was a lot going on. On the last step I overlaid the fence texture and shadow which had its own perspective. It turned out well enough, you can imagine walking down, turning right, and walking again down a slope to the sidewalk.
Crazy angles, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, March 2025 (No. 4201b)
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